Potential Titles: Lovely
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somethingdarkerA loveliness garnished through the years - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not whole but lovely in their brokenness - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Keep these lovely atoms - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"
Lovely as a dream in stone - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited
Attends Night's lovely queen - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"
Lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
Small & distinctly mortal forms of loveliness - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"
Gather the loveliest of the dream-rushes - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"
Thy lovely perilous abode - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"
With lovely baroque convolutions of thought - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"
Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
What lovely visions yield their place - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
The dream is lovelier than the song - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Spare us from loveliness - H.D. "Orchard"
A lovely gleam snatched from a rainbow - Geoffrey Dearmer "B.E.F. Missing"
Lovelier assassin none could choose - Edward Dowden "Imitated from J. Soulary's 'Le Fossoyeur'"
Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Forth shadowed in perfect loveliness - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Till Autumn's loveliest days are past - "The Flower and the Oak: Imitated from the Italian" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Pure as the ether in its hour of loveliest and serenest blue - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
Find some faint loveliness unseen - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Weave a web of lovely words - Mona Gould "Bend Your Head"
May be lovely as cranes and safe - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"
An infinite finitude I see in those peculiar lovely variations - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"
Lovely only in dreams - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
In a brown wild loveliness - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"
The blowing buds of lovely mirth - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"
Through its jocund loveliness of length - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Sprinkles life with loveliest flowers - Henry S. Leigh "The Ballad of the Barytone"
Of a loveliness to overthrow Kingdoms - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Drives the lovely soul to wander - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"
How lovely the ruins - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
Two lovely Queens divided - Theodore Maynard "John Redmond"
Lovelier for passing through a storm - Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer"
Lovely, lovely tattered mist - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Devours all lovely things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Passer Mortuus Est"
With your loveliest lie - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
For you I stole a little lovely dream - Sarojini Naidu "Cradle-Song"
A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"
Ghosts of all my lovely sins - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"
Weave me from all lovely dust - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Loveliest of what I leave - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)
Nothing but lovely mistakes - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Warm as loveliest star of night - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Lovelier than gossamer dreams - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"
The lovely hooves and mangled pianos - Erika L. Sanchez "Baptism"
Back resparkling far Orion's lovely blaze - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
Press gently on a loveliness - Marion Strobel "Little Things"
Such forms as haunt our loveliest dreams - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Loveliness to sell - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Which stalked along the lovely shore - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
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Not whole but lovely in their brokenness - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Keep these lovely atoms - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"
Lovely as a dream in stone - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited
Attends Night's lovely queen - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"
Lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
Small & distinctly mortal forms of loveliness - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"
Gather the loveliest of the dream-rushes - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"
Thy lovely perilous abode - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"
With lovely baroque convolutions of thought - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"
Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
What lovely visions yield their place - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
The dream is lovelier than the song - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Spare us from loveliness - H.D. "Orchard"
A lovely gleam snatched from a rainbow - Geoffrey Dearmer "B.E.F. Missing"
Lovelier assassin none could choose - Edward Dowden "Imitated from J. Soulary's 'Le Fossoyeur'"
Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Forth shadowed in perfect loveliness - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Till Autumn's loveliest days are past - "The Flower and the Oak: Imitated from the Italian" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Pure as the ether in its hour of loveliest and serenest blue - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
Find some faint loveliness unseen - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Weave a web of lovely words - Mona Gould "Bend Your Head"
May be lovely as cranes and safe - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"
An infinite finitude I see in those peculiar lovely variations - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"
Lovely only in dreams - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
In a brown wild loveliness - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"
The blowing buds of lovely mirth - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"
Through its jocund loveliness of length - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Sprinkles life with loveliest flowers - Henry S. Leigh "The Ballad of the Barytone"
Of a loveliness to overthrow Kingdoms - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Drives the lovely soul to wander - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"
How lovely the ruins - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
Two lovely Queens divided - Theodore Maynard "John Redmond"
Lovelier for passing through a storm - Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer"
Lovely, lovely tattered mist - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Devours all lovely things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Passer Mortuus Est"
With your loveliest lie - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
For you I stole a little lovely dream - Sarojini Naidu "Cradle-Song"
A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"
Ghosts of all my lovely sins - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"
Weave me from all lovely dust - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Loveliest of what I leave - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)
Nothing but lovely mistakes - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Warm as loveliest star of night - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Lovelier than gossamer dreams - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"
The lovely hooves and mangled pianos - Erika L. Sanchez "Baptism"
Back resparkling far Orion's lovely blaze - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
Press gently on a loveliness - Marion Strobel "Little Things"
Such forms as haunt our loveliest dreams - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Loveliness to sell - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Which stalked along the lovely shore - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
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